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Welcome to the the new members at Imaginif’s Child Protection community at MyBlogLog this week:

JustJess at Sometimes Heroes Come In Small Packages… (Jess has already been blog buddy matched as she joined on the day of the inaugural blogging buddy match up)

angesbiz  at Buzzing with Ange. Ange recently tagged me with a me me, meme. See the startling personal revelations about my child protection blogging life here.

Trish at My Little Drummer Boys.

Renee M at Sweet Love Gifts. [Megan looks around her computer and sings out to Paul, “Darling, you may like to visit this site, my petal, my love, my adorable cherub.” Feeling smug and sure she’ll get an anniversary present, Megan bats her eyelids and returns to work.]

cotojo at S.E.O and Traffic Tips. Check out this article of his: How do search engines work - Web Crawlers. Brilliant. I’ve saved this to forward to my colleagues (Social Workers and technology don’t go hand in hand) when they ask me how it all works. Thanks cotojo.

frabra at Child Support Attorney in The USA

ERIK V  at Travelling around the World. Erik and I have been internet buddies since I first started playing with the social networks. Our friendship has endured several blog changes for me. Erik has been a constant. Also an active member of our safety talk forum, his discussions around his home country of Belgium often leave me searching for my passport and checking the bank balance. Oh to have a Christmas in Belgium….all that chocolate!

Shinade at The Painted Veil.

Mee Moe at Mee>m0e<

laketrees at Laketrees. Check out Kim’s amazing Christmas competition. The winner gets a portrait.

roshidan at Roshidan’s Cyber Station

Welcome to each of you. Thanks for joining our child protection community; Imaginif, no child abuse. You have all been stumbled and given the green thumbs up. Take some time to get to know each other. Support the other members of our community and watch the benefits of child protection like mindedness grow.

And your fellow members of Child Protection community at MyBlogLog? They are a great and friendly bunch. Drop in and visit them. You can easily see who your community supports are by checking their avatars at Faces of Child Protection at Imaginif’s MyBlogLog Community and Whensday Update.

Child Protection community Blogging Buddy: As a member of our community you are going to be randomly ascribed a blogging buddy. Similar to Secret Santa, you may voluntarily enact random acts of kindness and increase blog Karma to your community blogging buddy by making that person a part of your blogging day - a message on MyBlogLog, a comment, a link, a stumble - you will find a way to let your community blogging buddy know that someone is thinking of them and is helping to ensure that their commitment to child protection has not gone unnoticed. Whereas Secret Santa lasts for the holiday season, Child Protection Community Blogging Buddy will last for the cyber life span of yourself and blogging buddy. If one buddy stops blogging, no worries, we’ll just do buddy adjustment.

To build community, a two way process of interaction is required from participants (all of us).  To develop a community means to build active and sustainable communities based on social justice and mutual respect (no cyber bullying, hate, racist, sexual harassment, spam or derogatory comments). It is about changing power structures to remove the barriers that prevent people from participating in the issues that affect their lives. Child protection and child safety is faced with many structural and personal barriers. It is time to remove them by supporting those who publicly stand up for the safety of our kids. It is time to make child protection serious business. It is time to have child protection blogging buddies.

Expect a private message in your MyBlogLog where you will be ascribed another community member to watch out for, to encourage and to support. A data base matches names randomly. Matches for new members will be made monthly so that brand new members are less likely to guess who they may be matched with.

Article by Megan Bayliss